S.A. doctors find faster, better way to beat hepatitis
Jennifer R. Lloy, Express-News
Updated 11:41 pm, Monday, January 7, 2013
Two local physicians who studied therapies for liver-damaging hepatitis C have found that a new drug combination wipes out the virus quicker and without the harmful side effects of the current treatment.
Poordad and Dr. Eric Lawitz, liver specialists and professors at the University of Texas Health Science Center, authored the study with several other physicians. It was published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Abbott Laboratories created the two investigational drugs, preliminarily called ABT-450 and ABT-333, and funded the study of 50 South Texas patients, Poordad said...
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